Ep #145: Competing Desires
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
You're feeling an urge to binge and you don't want to binge but you do. You want to make that urge go away but you also want to ride it out and let it pass. You're at the store and you want to buy something that looks good but you also don't. You want to but you don't. You have competing wants and competing desires.
This happens a lot when you're trying to not binge eat. It can be really confusing because you don't know what you want. You're hearing two different things in your mind. So today's episode I'm going to help you make this a lot more clear for yourself. I'm going to help you figure out what you really want and how to get it. Listen in to find out how to stop the confusion so you take take action to get what you truly want.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten's safety episode number 145. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and |
| 0:11.8 | begin feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.6 | binge eating from your life and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can apply in your own life and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.4 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:30.4 | Hi, how are you feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm doing my best to create fun and pleasure in my life. And I am loving |
| 0:40.4 | that the New Hampshire weather is warming up so we can do more outside things like walk at the |
| 0:45.9 | beach and on walking trails and hang out outside at our friends and family's houses and at our |
| 0:51.5 | house and play outdoor games and all of the things and fingers crossed |
| 0:55.3 | this summer will have more opportunities for events and gatherings than last summer. I hope you're |
| 1:02.0 | also creating fun and pleasure in your life. Let's not let food be the funest thing in your life. |
| 1:08.5 | Find more. All right. Let's dive into today's topic. |
| 1:14.4 | Competing desires. Competing desires are something I know all of you deal with and everyone |
| 1:21.9 | does really whenever they're in a moment of indecision. What it means is that you want two things and they're each competing |
| 1:29.9 | for you to choose them. And most likely they're opposite things. One is yes and the other is no. |
| 1:35.1 | And there's so many ways this can show up in binge eating. So I'll give you a few examples. |
| 1:41.0 | The most obvious is whether or not you'll binge. You're feeling an urge to binge and you have |
| 1:46.3 | the desire to binge, but you also have a desire to not binge. Part of you wants to just give in and |
| 1:51.5 | eat the food and part of you doesn't. And you might have competing desires about buying food. |
| 1:57.8 | You're in the store and you see something that looks good and you have a desire to buy it |
| 2:01.7 | and a desire not to. And you might have competing desires about applying things that you've learned |
| 2:07.5 | on this podcast. Part of you wants to make time to do it and part of you wants to do something more fun |
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